Patch "kbuild: Fix changing ELF file type for output of gen_btf for big endian" has been added to the 6.7-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    kbuild: Fix changing ELF file type for output of gen_btf for big endian

to the 6.7-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     kbuild-fix-changing-elf-file-type-for-output-of-gen_btf-for-big-endian.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.7 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.


>From e3a9ee963ad8ba677ca925149812c5932b49af69 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2024 19:05:10 -0700
Subject: kbuild: Fix changing ELF file type for output of gen_btf for big endian

From: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>

commit e3a9ee963ad8ba677ca925149812c5932b49af69 upstream.

Commit 90ceddcb4950 ("bpf: Support llvm-objcopy for vmlinux BTF")
changed the ELF type of .btf.vmlinux.bin.o to ET_REL via dd, which works
fine for little endian platforms:

   00000000  7f 45 4c 46 02 01 01 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |.ELF............|
  -00000010  03 00 b7 00 01 00 00 00  00 00 00 80 00 80 ff ff  |................|
  +00000010  01 00 b7 00 01 00 00 00  00 00 00 80 00 80 ff ff  |................|

However, for big endian platforms, it changes the wrong byte, resulting
in an invalid ELF file type, which ld.lld rejects:

   00000000  7f 45 4c 46 02 02 01 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |.ELF............|
  -00000010  00 03 00 16 00 00 00 01  00 00 00 00 00 10 00 00  |................|
  +00000010  01 03 00 16 00 00 00 01  00 00 00 00 00 10 00 00  |................|

  Type:                              <unknown>: 103

  ld.lld: error: .btf.vmlinux.bin.o: unknown file type

Fix this by updating the entire 16-bit e_type field rather than just a
single byte, so that everything works correctly for all platforms and
linkers.

   00000000  7f 45 4c 46 02 02 01 00  00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  |.ELF............|
  -00000010  00 03 00 16 00 00 00 01  00 00 00 00 00 10 00 00  |................|
  +00000010  00 01 00 16 00 00 00 01  00 00 00 00 00 10 00 00  |................|

  Type:                              REL (Relocatable file)

While in the area, update the comment to mention that binutils 2.35+
matches LLD's behavior of rejecting an ET_EXEC input, which occurred
after the comment was added.

Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fixes: 90ceddcb4950 ("bpf: Support llvm-objcopy for vmlinux BTF")
Link: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/75643
Suggested-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Fangrui Song <maskray@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Schier <nicolas@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Justin Stitt <justinstitt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 scripts/link-vmlinux.sh |    9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
+++ b/scripts/link-vmlinux.sh
@@ -135,8 +135,13 @@ gen_btf()
 	${OBJCOPY} --only-section=.BTF --set-section-flags .BTF=alloc,readonly \
 		--strip-all ${1} ${2} 2>/dev/null
 	# Change e_type to ET_REL so that it can be used to link final vmlinux.
-	# Unlike GNU ld, lld does not allow an ET_EXEC input.
-	printf '\1' | dd of=${2} conv=notrunc bs=1 seek=16 status=none
+	# GNU ld 2.35+ and lld do not allow an ET_EXEC input.
+	if is_enabled CONFIG_CPU_BIG_ENDIAN; then
+		et_rel='\0\1'
+	else
+		et_rel='\1\0'
+	fi
+	printf "${et_rel}" | dd of=${2} conv=notrunc bs=1 seek=16 status=none
 }
 
 # Create ${2} .S file with all symbols from the ${1} object file


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from nathan@xxxxxxxxxx are

queue-6.7/modpost-add-.ltext-and-.ltext.-to-text_sections.patch
queue-6.7/um-fix-adding-no-pie-for-clang.patch
queue-6.7/kbuild-fix-changing-elf-file-type-for-output-of-gen_btf-for-big-endian.patch




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